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Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?
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Originally Posted by jfman
Why is that the barometer?
The UK Government cannot balance the books, despite a decade of austerity. The barometer is surely that it can sustain interest payments as that's seemingly what the rest of the globe does when you look at the aggregate debt of the planet (who to?).
These figures are underpinned by a UK Government interpretation of what an independent Scotland would have as income and expenditure. An independent Scotland might decide, for example, it's not worth paying for nuclear submarines that need US permission to launch.
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